Licensing
In a little over six weeks time the doors will close on all authors and publishers wanting to opt out of the Google books settlement, the US-based class action lawsuit. The settlement, once finalised, will provide one-time compensation from Google in exchange for a licence for Google to use and sell every in-copyright book they have digitised, whether the authors are known or not.
Last month we posted the first version of a tool for determining the New Zealand copyright status of photographs for you to use and comment on. The updated version is now available for you to use and share:
With Creative Commons licences it's always been a bit tricky to give away content or declare it out of copyright. Creative Commons licences rely on provisions in copyright law that firmly fix the licence to the copyright owner. But what if you don't want to remain the copyright owner, and what if your content is not in copyright? The Creative Commons is on to it, and will offer new tools for exactly these circumstances.
